There’s an area inside the musical realm of electronics that motivates the senses in a way that is quite magical. It’s that moment in time when layers shift and basslines bubble in a sea of percussive oddities. This is the sound of technology taking a break from the everyday rigmarole of daily life. When intricately lazy rhythms are fitted in an accessibly gritty-techno outfit, you begin to realize that the meat of this album is actually chilled out and resting in the backyard ready for the listener to absorb.
Technology Is Lonely is Ezekiel Honig’s debut CD-release for the newly formed New York City based Anticipate Recordings. Maneuvering its way through deep and dubby 4/4 rhythms, Honig manages to keep the funk alive and active from start to end. With a nod to artists like Sutekh and Safety Scissors, Ezekiel Honig forges a simpler approach with emotive basslines and Berlin styled minimal-techno clicks that might appeal to fans of Mille Plateaux’s Clicks & Cuts series. Technology may certainly be the centre of today’s musical onslaught of electronic releases, but it’s also good to hear that Anticipate Recordings mandate is to nurture a more focused and accessible sound for the masses –balancing ambience, dub, techno and IDM in one swift (e)motion. As a debut CD, Technology Is Lonely marks the beginning of Honig’s technological accomplishments and Anticipate’s forward-thinking mission.
Technology Is Lonely is OUT NOW on Anticipate Recordings.
